The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-10-05

sake, for theirs 10 the King
dom Of Heaven" but they do not realize
the fact that this principle applies to
worldly Is well a. spiritual success. It's
true in all departments. Had 1t not been
for Eschines, who brought impeachment
against Demosthenes, the immortal GRAFTON
Do Corona would never have been
delivered. Men rise to high
political position through mis-
representation and the assault Of tho pub
Lie. Public abuse is all that some Of our
public men have had tOreiy upon for their
elevation. 1t has brought to them what
talent and executive force could never
have achieved. Many Of those who are
making great effort for place and power
will never succeed just because they are
not Of enough Importance to be abused. 1t
is the nature Of man to gather about those
who are prosecuted and defend them, and
they are apt to forget the faults Of those
who are the subjects Of attack while
attempting to drive back the SANDER
ers. Helen Stirk, a Scotch martyr, con-
demned with her husband to death for
Christ's sake, said to her husband: 'Re-
jolce! We have lived together many JOY
full days. but this day wherein we must
die together ought 10 be most joyful to us
both. Therefore will not bid you good
night, for soon we shall meet in the
heavenly kingdom" By the fash Of the
furnace best Chris ian character is DEM
onstrated.
go into another department and I find
that those great denominations Of Chris
tians which have been most abused have
spread the most rapidly. No good man
was ever more vilely maltreated than
John Wesley. His followers were booted
at and maligned, and called by every de-
testable name that Internal ingenuity
could invent, but the hotter the persecu-
ton the more rapid the spread Of that de-
nomination, nntil you know what great
host they have become, and what ire.
mendous force for God and the truth
they are welding all tho world
over. 1t was persecution that gave
Scotland to Presbyterisnism. It was
persecution which gave our own
land first to civil liberty, and afterward
to religious freedom. Yea, may go fur
Their back and say it was persecution that
gave the world the great salvation Of the
Gospel. The ribald mockery, the hunger
ing and the thirsting, the unjust trial and
| ignominious death, where all the force Of
hell's fury was hurled against the cross,
was the introduction of that religion
which is yet to be the earth's deliver.
ance from guilt and suffering and her
everlasting enforcement among the
principalities Of Heaven. The State has
sometimes said to the Church: "Come,
let me take your hand and I will help
you" What has been the RESULT The
Church has gone back and has lost its estate
| Of holiness and has become ineffective.
At other times the State has said to the
Church: VI will crush you" What has
been the RESULT After the storms have
spent their fury, the Church, so far from
having lost any Of its force, has increased
and is worth infinitely more after the as
saslt than before it. The Church is fal
more indebted to the opposition Of civil
government than to its approval. Thu
fires of the stake have only been tn,
torches which Christ held in His hand b.
the light of which the Church has marche,
to her present position. In the sound o
racks and implements Of torture heal
the rumbling of the wheels of the Gospe
chariot. Scaffolds of martyrdom hav
been the stairs by which the Church ha
assembled. Aqua fortis is the best test o
pure gold.
Furthermore, our subject impresses u
that sins will come to exposure. Long
long ago had these brothers sold Josep
into Egypt. They had suppressed tn
crime, and it was a profound secret wei
kept by the brothers. But suddenly tn
secret is out. The old father hears thu
his son is in Egypt, having been sold ther
by the malice Of his own brothers. Ho,
their cheeks must have burned and thei
hearts sunk at the flaming out Of this sur
pressed crimeiy The smallest iniquity ha
a thousand tongues, and they will blab on
I an exposure. Saul was sent to destro
!. the Canaanites, their sheep and their oxer
But when he got down there among tn
pastures he saw some fine sheep an
oxen too fat to kill, and so he thought
would steal them. He drove them towar
: home, but stopped to report to the prophe
r how we'll he had executed his commission
! when in the distance the sheep began
a bleat and the oxen to below. The se0t
r was out, and Samuel said to the blushin
and COMPOUNDED Saul; s'What means tt
/ bleating Of the sheep that hear and tn
0 loving of the cattle9" Aye, my nearer
r you can not keep an inquity quiet. 4
: just the wrong time the sheep will BILE,
e and the oxen will below. Achan can nj
K steal the Babylonish garment without &c
|, ting stoned to death, nor Benedict Arno
t betray his country without having his nee
r stretched. Look over the police arrest
t These thieves, these burglars, these adulte
e ers, these assassins. They all thought the
j. could bury their iniquity so deep dow
that it would never come to resurrectio
d But there was some shoe that answers
Y to the print in the sand, some false Ike.
n found in possession, some bloody kni
;, that whispered Of the deed, aud the publ
/ indignation and the anathema of outrage
1 law hurled him into the Tombs, or hoists
|, him on the gallows. At the close of Il
l. battle between the Dauphin Of Fran,
d and the Helvetians, Burchard Nor
n was so elated with the victory that
e lifted his helmet to look OF upon the feel
o when q wounded soldier hurled stol
Q that struck his uncovered forehead and
o fell. Sin will always leave some point e
Q posed, and there is no safety in iniquit
$ Francis l., King Of France, was discus
l. ing how it was best to get his army in